Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

ing murdered Emily Brown. On the 18th
he will be sentenced to be hanged.
Rowe, who killed Constable Logan at
Des Moines, Ia, was exonerated by the
coroner's jury. on the Sth, but was ar
rested subsequently on information
charging him with murder.
THE tailoring establishment of Nicon in
New York was burned on the morning
of the Sth. In the excitement passengers
on an elevated railway train become panic
stricken, and many jumped or fell to the
streets below, a distance of thirty feet,
and an appalling loss of life and casualties
occurred.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made at the
Treasury Department to supply the de-
mand for small notes, silver certificates
and United States notes, which is very
large and is increasing daily.
THE Stanley expedition for the relief of
Emin Bey has arrived at Simonstown,
Cape of Good Hope The expedition will
take the supplies awaiting it at Simons-
town and proceed on its journey.
THE magnificent new brown stone build
ing for the use of the medical department
of Western Reserve University at Cleve-
land, O., was dedicated on the Sth. The
structure cost Si75, 900 and was built by
John L. Woods, the millionaire lumber
man. United States Senator Payne and
wife donated the site
WILBERT CLEARY, twenty-one years of
age, son of a commission merchant, COM
mitted suicide at his home in Washing
ton, D. c., on the Sth. He placed the
muzzle of a pistol in his mouth and fired,
the bullet passing upward and through
the brain. Ill health led to dependency
and the awful act.
A SHANGHAI telegram says rich
Christian merchant named Lo has been
executed there in disregard of French
mediation in his behalf. This is taken as
an indication that China has determined
to maintain her denial that France has any
exceptional right to protection on religious
grounds.
THE Secretary of the Interior has direct
ed that all important decisions of his
Office in pension cases, made during the
present calendar year, be printed from
time to time, and that at the end of the
year they be bound into a volume. Orders
for this volume received by the public
printer before the work goes to press
Will be filled at price ten per cent. ab0ve
cost of printing and binding.
AN understanding has been reached be-
tween committee representing the
American Cattle Breeders Association
and the Commissioner of Agriculture
which promises more efficient cooperation
between the association and the Depart
ment of Agriculture in the suppression of
pleuro-pneumonia.
LUCY Parsons, the female Anarchist of
Chicago, was locked up at Colum bus, O.,
on the 9th, for unseenIy conduct.
THE debate in the German Reichstag on
the Septennate bill closed on the 9th, and
the measure was passed with little oppo-
sition.
WIN. G. HICKMAN, of Boston, after swind-
ling some capitalists out of large sum of
money, has skipped to Canada.
PRESIDENT GREEN, in making the West
ern Union quarterly report, recommends
that the dividend be passed.
THE Russian press is very bitter in its
denunciatIon of the alleged atrocious treat
ment of captured revolutionists by the
Bulgarian regents.
THE Illinois Legislature is considering
proposition to purchase for the State the
old Lincoln homestead.
The British Admiralty exonerates the
American Legation at London from any
part IN the navy-yard scandal for which
Draughtsman Terry was dismissed.
THE National Base Ball League meeting
at New Y FORK closed up its business on the
9th, and adjourned until next year.
THE assiZes at Dublin was closed by the
court on the 9Th, the announcement being
made from the bench that the juries
were sure to acquit the accused.
THE New York Times says the control of
the Baltimore & Ohio road has passed
into the hands of Alfred Sully of New
York. The report lacks confirmation.
THE boiler of a shingl mill at Edmore,
Mich, exploded on the 9th, killing Chas.
Waters and Denny Sherlock, and wound
ing number of others.
THE largest importation of foreigners
made by one steamer for some time was
landed at Castle Garden, New York, on
the 9th from the French steamer Cheri-
bon. There were / ,191, and all were Ital-
ianS.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY has departed for Eu-
rope.
IHE special grand jury to investigate
the alleged municipal crookedness in Chi
cago has begun its work.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the Cedar Rapids National
Bank of Cedar Rapids, Ia, to begin bust
ness with capital of 100000.
FRANK CRAWFORD and Thomas Pearsall,
residents OF Bridgeport, Pa, were
drowned in the Monongahela river, lock
No. 5, on the night of the Sth. Their bodies
were not recovered. Thomas Anderson,
of Bridgeport, missing since the 7lh, was
found drowned in the Monongahela river
four miles below Brownsville
STEPHEN HUTTON, Of the firm of Hutton,
Stutzman & Co., of Ligonier, Pa, was
brutally beaten and almost killed during
the night of the 9th, by three burglars
whom Hutton surprised in their furniture
factory, where the burglars had broken
IN to obtain tools to burglarize business
houses.
THE Treasury Department is informed
that many of the trade dollars presented
split and filled so skilfully as to almost
defy detection.
THE Governor of Alsace-Lorraine has
accomplished the dis solution of two hun
dred anti-German societies within his
jurisdiction since the recent elections.
The vacant chaplainsh1p in the navy, it
IS said, will be filled by the appointm ent
of Rev. Father Clarence E. Woodman, of
New York, who, in such an event, Will be
the first Catholic chaplain ever appointed
in the navy.
CAPTAIN JAMES B. EADs died on the
Sth inst. at Nassau, New Providence, of
pneumonia.
THE reported existence of yellow-fever
at Vera Cruz Mexico, is denied.
THE Republ leans of the THenty-eighth
senatorial district of Virginia have nomi-
mated a negro.
BIZ melinite explosion at the fortress
of Belfort, France, On the 10th, six soldiers
were killed and eleven wounded.
THE trouble at the Roger Williams Uni
versitr (colored), Nashville, Tenn, is re-
ported adjusted.
DAVID GRANT, of Cedar Rapids, Ia. had
sale of Norman and Clydesdale stations
on the 10th, the prices averaging 800.
The British navy-yard scandal is fruit
full topic in London. The officials appear
to shrink from the invest CATION.
LUCY PARSONS was placed under $500
bonds to keep the peace at Columbus. O..
h ia Trir- hal
to Jail
TIE United Labor marty of Akron a